I had an electric shock machine. I think it was handed down from my father or someone that he knew. All you got was a slight sensation. Your granny would have liked it. Mine did. TJH We made our own from relays ! A good clunky relay with a 9V battery, coil wired in series with a normally-closed con...

Dandy, Beano, Cor(?!), Whizzer & Chips(or something)Moved up to Warlord and Bullet (both from DC Thompson of Dundee, as were Beano and Dandy) - an expensive 5p and 7p respectively when they were first published

It was a manned police helicopter what did for us, Guv. We had seen it hovering in the skies and continued on our merry*** way, until we were stopped by a police car further down the road and had to cough up 50 Kroner on the spot. Sounds a bit cheap, unless the Krona has been revalued - I know it's...

There was a (probable) full-on nuclear explosion in the South Atlantic in the late 1970s detected by US satellite(s) - don't think they ever worked out 'whodunnit'I would guess modern monitoring satellites would have picked up this event, although it wouldn't have the typical double flash of a nuke

I ended up replacing the halogens with 6 x 'Philips LED Classic 4.6 W GU10s' for c £14 - They are working fine so far: good light, run cool, and the full six use less power than one of the old halogens

Does it not say on the bottle (beyond brewed in Scotland) eg postcode? I guess not. The Daylesford sites says "Our organic beers are vegan-friendly and made in a brewery that specializes in craft, experimental beer" so probably not Carlsberg Northampton, but doesn't narrow it down much.. [...

Cell info display is something differentTest mode (engineering mode/field test) is usually hidden.on my old 6110 i had to key in some long code to access it (looked like #*#*1234567*#*#) a Google may find the relevant code IF it's available on your phone

If you have test mode on your antique phone you can see what your current 'best server' is (obviously only stuff that is on air) ,It will show cell id rather than site number, but the LAC/cell ID combination is unique to a site (the LAC defines a cell cluster for paging purposes)

If we had a lexicon of Melspeak, we cound understand her lacuna. Using 'lexicon' rather than the more correct (in my opinion) 'glossary' is just wilful obfuscation :) Unless I meant lexicon, of course. You remind me of the person who asked my why I had to use the posh word 'amend' and why I couldn'...

Wow, it's creeping in here at my new place. Just had this from the boss. "I will be in a position to confirm on Tuesday once the amounts have been agreed. If there are any issues we will revert immediately." I hope there are no issues. What will we revert to? The primordial slime? Funnily...